Sentences with word «rheumatologist»
A rheumatologist is a doctor who specializes in diagnosing and treating diseases that affect the joints, muscles, and bones. They help people with conditions like arthritis, gout, lupus, and osteoporosis to manage their symptoms and improve their quality of life. Full definition
The ORBIT data «showed that patients who have seropositive rheumatoid arthritis are just as likely to respond to rituximab therapy when compared to anti-TNF therapy,» said Duncan Porter, MD, Honorary Associate Professor and a consultant rheumatologist at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, Scotland, and one of the lead authors of the study.
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The study entitled «Feasibility of photoacoustic / ultrasound imaging of synovitis in finger joints using a point - of - care system» was conducted and published by Pim van den Berg, Khalid Daoudi and Wiendelt Steenbergen from the University of Twente research institute MIRA in cooperation with rheumatologist Hein Moens of Ziekenhuis group Twente.
The staple argument of rheumatologists for using the toxic drugs is to stop inflamation to prevent deterioration of cartilage and deformity of joints.
«We want our patients seeing rheumatologists,» says Siegel.
Likewise, 92 % of surgeons and 60 % of rheumatologists replied that the surgery always or usually relieves pain.
And luckily, it's now much easier than it used to be to find a board - certified rheumatologist who specializes in the disease.
Her current duties as a research assistant to pediatric rheumatologist James Jarvis include finding possible genetic and / or environmental causation to the severity of rheumatic diseases in Native American communities.
But the role of pyrophosphate in osteoarthritis, a much more common ailment, is unclear, says rheumatologist Michael Doherty of the City Hospital in Nottingham, United Kingdom.
The team examined data from the Canadian Early Arthritis Cohort, a multicenter observational trial of patients with early RA who were treated by rheumatologists using guideline - based care.
As rheumatologist taking care of lupus patients I try to cover all areas of well being — not just the physical part.
I did play in one more basketball game shortly after my initial rheumatologist appointment, although I was very stiff within 20 minutes of the game.
«Now rheumatologists are more aggressive at treating the diseases — because we can be,» he says.
In this free lecture, board - certified rheumatologist Leonard Calabrese, DO, Vice Chairman of the Cleveland Clinic's Department of Rheumatic and Immunological Diseases, connects IMIDs and the modifiable lifestyle factors that ca...
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull An archaeology professor searches for his college's retirement buyout and a good rheumatologist.
Whilst established to examine possible safety issues with biologic therapies, it provides the opportunity to look at additional benefits beyond the direct effect on disease severity,» explains William Dixon, MD, MRC clinician scientist / senior clinical lecturer and honorary consultant rheumatologist; Arthritis Research UK Epidemiology Unit, The University of Manchester; and an investigator in the study.
«It's good for improving the mobility of the joint,» says Honolulu - based rheumatologist James McKoy, MD, chief of the pain service division at Kaiser Permanente in Hawaii.
Three gene expression signatures can help rheumatologists predict which patients are more likely to respond to tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi) or B - cell depletion therapies in patients with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, according to new research findings presented this week at the 2016 ACR / ARHP Annual Meeting in Washington.
Beyond neurologists, the paper also focused on rheumatologists and nephrologists prescribing the drug.
No, I learned that gout — a form of inflammatory arthritis brought on by a build - up of uric acid crystals in the joints — is an increasingly common diagnosis: 8 - 12 million Americans have it, according to rheumatologist Michael Pillinger, MD, Professor of Medicine, Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at NYU Langone Medical Center.
It is imperative that open and informed communication between the patient, orthopedic surgeon and rheumatologist take place.»
Another important reason why rheumatologists should encourage their AS patients to quit smoking.
According to Dartmouth - Hitchcock (D - H) Rheumatologist Alicia Zbehlik, MD, MPH, research has shown that running does not ruin your knees or cause osteoarthritis; in fact, it can actually protect your knees!
«T - cells were in fashion for a long time,» says retired rheumatologist and researcher Jonathan Edwards.
In outward appearance, however, he is your average rheumatologist, with one practice at the Arthritis Center in Lawrence, Kansas, and another at the Arthritis Center of Northeast Ohio, in Youngstown.
So the Nelsons were sent to Stanford University, where pediatric rheumatologist Jennifer Frankovich already had some experience treating the psychiatric symptoms of autoimmune disease — a frightening scenario in which the body turns on itself and attacks the brain.
In 1978, rheumatologist Jon Levine and neurologist Howard Fields, both at the University of California, San Francisco, did a simple experiment with people in pain after dental surgery.
Rheumatologist Thomas Pap of the University Hospital Magdeburg in Germany agrees that the research could lead to «innovative therapeutic strategies.»
A Robert Wood Johnson Medical School rheumatologist and a clinical psychologist at the University of Michigan's Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center reviewed the impact back pain had on the life and death of the 35th president.
So a team led by autoimmunity researcher and rheumatologist J. Lee Nelson of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington, took samples from autopsied brains of 59 women who died between the ages of 32 and 101.
«While America's rheumatologists support the development of new biosimilar therapies, the safety of our patients remains our highest priority.
Mayo rheumatologist Timothy Niewold, M.D., was the study's senior author.
«Our study shows that extremely obese people seeking relief from their knee pain should consider lap - band surgery earlier because the benefits from it being successful — although significant for all ages — decrease with age,» says study senior investigator and rheumatologist Jonathan Samuels, MD..
When they heard about the rise in narcolepsy in 2010, neuroscientist Lawrence Steinman of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and rheumatologist Sohail Ahmed, who at the time was global head of clinical sciences at Novartis's vaccines and diagnostics division in Siena, Italy, began scouring databases for proteins expressed in the brain that might resemble those in the vaccine.
The results of the study, for which MedUni Vienna rheumatologist Josef Smolen was senior author, have now been published in top medical journal The Lancet.
A multicentre, multinational study headed up by rheumatologist Daniel Aletaha of MedUni Vienna as principal investigator has now shown that a new drug (sirukumab) is a very promising treatment option for these «refractory» patients.
But the work doesn't convince rheumatologist Lars Rönnblom of Uppsala University in Sweden.
Allen Steere, an MGH rheumatologist and the researcher who led the team that first identified Lyme disease in the 1970s, is exploring the question of why some people don't get well after treatment.
«Many rheumatologists think that the autoantibodies are an epiphenomenon — an interesting phenomenon but not directly related to the cause of lupus,» said Wolin.
«We don't have a good predictor of who's going to respond better to which medication,» says Apostolos Kontzias, MD, staff rheumatologist with the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.
«Physical activity does a lot to strengthen and support the joints, and there's a lot of pain relief that comes along with exercise,» says rheumatologist Allyson McDonough, MD, assistant professor of internal medicine at the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, in Temple.
When rheumatologists see women whose hands are hurting and inflamed, they think of various inflammatory diseases that could be causing the symptoms.
Since 70 % of people with fibromyalgia are on more than one medication, drug interactions are an important consideration, says Andrew J Holman MD, clinical rheumatologist and associate clinical professor of medicine at the University of Washington.
She is proud to be one of the few rheumatologists who does not routinely start her patients on biologic and DMARD therapies.
Many rheumatologists understand the importance of diet and exercise when it comes to chronic inflammatory conditions, so ask your doctor what they recommend.